Rodney Schwartz

This professor has taught: COMM107

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Rodney Schwartz COMM107 Expecting a B Anonymous 01/25/2018	Rodney Schwartz is hella annoying. He won’t give out A’s in COMM107, which is ridiculous, it should be an easy A. He hates technology and is incompetent at it, so there is always issues with ELMS and he doesn’t respond to emails. He gets off topic and then blames the students for the for the distraction. The majority of the class is him going over the material from the last class and talking about random shit, so you’ll only learn new material for about 5 minutes out of the entire class. So if you want a B in a class that you should earn an A in, learn barley anything, and listen to a guy who thinks he’s the shit, I’d highly recommend Prof. Schwartz.
Rodney Schwartz COMM107 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/29/2015	Shittiest teacher ever. Knows next to nothing about communication, hates everything about technology, and will give everyone a terrible grade regardless of the quality of work. Highest grades in the class barely crossed the 90% mark. Workload is fairly light, until the last few weeks where he frantically assigns the interview and persuasive and group speech to be due and presented within a week of each other. Work your ass off all semester, endlessly rehearsing your speeches, and dear old Rodney will reward you with a nice fat B. Avoid this teacher at all costs.
Rodney Schwartz COMM107 Anonymous 01/22/2015	Schwartz is a special type of person. He is the type of person that makes you so infuriated and frustrated at his teaching style, that the frustrations leak into other parts of your life. Every day after class (before I withdrew from it, because I could not take any more of his shit) I would find that I was still angry hours after I left the class. The problems reached a head when I asked in class whether a certain book would count as a good source for the first speech. He said no, without explanation, so I asked again. This time he asked me if I was joking, and asked to speak with me after class. He chewed me out for being disruptive in class, and I told him that I had NO idea what he was talking about. I could tell that something was off about him at that point. And then the issues kept coming. Because he flat out REFUSES to use technology and post meeting times/places online, I didn't know that class was in the library one day, and he took away my participation points for the day. It's little things like that that added up, and caused me to withdraw from the class. Yes, I withdrew from the class, and got a big fat W on my transcript because of him. It was better than going through another day with him standing in the front of the class telling jokes, having no direction as a teacher. Please take this as a warning. Stay away from Rodney Schwartz. He could quite possibly be the devil reincarnated, and his sole job on this earth is to drag students down to the depths of his education-less hell. Take my unfortunate story, and the other reviews, as proof that you do not want to have this man standing in front of you during class.
Rodney Schwartz COMM107 Expecting a ? Anonymous 12/14/2014	This review is also for Rodney Schwartz, the Comm "Professor". This guy (I will abstain from calling him professor, as that entails he actually educates students) was the worst person I've ever had for ANY class at Maryland. Not only was he completely incompetent at teaching the subject, his grades were vastly lower than every other comm class. First, onto his teaching skills. He has none. Seriously, he doesn't teach. More than half of our class was going over what we did last class, then the rest of it was him blabbering on about absolutely nothing. Well, if he sucks at teaching, at least he may give you a good grade right? Guess again. In a class full of 17 people, NO ONE GOT AN A. IN COMM107. 5 people around me got an 82 on one of the speeches, despite all varying in how well they actually did. Rodney Schwartz is the epitome of an awful "professor" at the University of Maryland, and you should avoid him unless you want to get a high C in COMM107.
Rodney Schwartz COMM107 Expecting an A econterp 12/14/2014	Oh, Rodney. Anti-technology, ELMS becomes useless, and you don't ever know your grade. For a communications professor he is a poor communicator as well. You don't learn much, but if you embrace the stupidity of the class you will do fine. Workload is very small and doesn't require much time or effort, but don't expect to be inspired to learn more about communications or anything. Probably better to find a different professor if you don't want a slow-paced class you learn next to nothing in.
Rodney Schwartz COMM107 Anonymous 05/18/2014	So the professor's name is actually rodney schwartz, but i digress. DO NOT TAKE HIM FOR COMM. There are so many better teachers. He refuses to put anything on elms or tell you what your grades are. He is so unreasonable and does not teach at all. His tests are based completely on the book, but he rarely goes over the content it in class. And when he does, it takes him so long to go over a simple concept so its no help. And on top of that he is super petty when it comes to presentations and will take points off just because he doesn't agree with you. Literally comm is so he easy, but he makes it 10x harder just because he is so old fashion and refuses to get with technology and the times. My class was literally a month behind all the other sections so he had to drop half the assignments. DO NOT TAKE HIM!!